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Tiger Tiger burning bright 🐯

[Proud Texan @BecomeATexan]

Nykoda Icke taking the new Trinity Church organ for a spin with help from organ megastar Anna Lapwood. (For context, Nykoda is a 10 year old prodigy who learns everything **by ear**).
https://t.co/FQKVWqLIWt

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

Starmer has to buy foreign friends.

There isn’t enough money left to buy British ones.

It’s why he’s always abroad whenever it’s a bit tricky at home in Blighty.

Just watch him find billions to give the EU for a reset that disadvantages Britain and compare to his not being able (or willing) to fund our own defence.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

“To protect farmers and our rural communities.”

Farmers committed suicide because of your inheritance tax raid, families devastated by your policy.

Now you have the brass neck to claim you care about them, utterly shameless.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

It is possible to believe two things simultaneously.

Starmer government are authoritarians who wish to usher in digital ID to control speech and thought.

Social media, and internet in general, are a disaster for kids breeding an anxious generation with tiny attention spans.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

The Mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, continues to call for greater intervention and regulation of social media platforms that highlight rising crime in the capital.

Khan has claimed that London has been subjected to a “relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred” on social media. He now argues that online “misinformation” is deterring tourists from visiting the city.

Yet Home Office data show that there were nearly 100,000 thefts or attempted thefts in London last year, compared with around 45,000 in 2019.

Rather than trying to shut down criticism and debate, or blaming social media for London’s problems, the Mayor should focus on tackling rising crime and making the case for his own policies.

More open discussion is not the problem. It is part of the solution.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Al Carn’s brutal resignation speech mentioned the betrayal of veterans:

“I could no longer ignore the continued failure to address the treatment of our veterans in NI…a country owes a duty to those it sent into harm’s way under lawful orders, and that duty does not end when the uniform comes off.”

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Any news about what he's doing for the Buddhists,
or the Hindus, or the Taoists, or the Sikhs, or the Jews, or the Zoroastrians, or even the Christians ?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The state spends 55% of Scotland’s GDP, much of it on public sector jobs whose productivity is on a par with a Sverdlovsk steel mill in Soviet times. It only there was a Scottish word for entrepreneur 🤣

[David Vance @DavidVance]

This is really disturbing. Labour are looking at VPN bans, overnight curfews and introducing total State control of the internet.

[👁👁 @dave448]

@benonwine nobody listening ...🫈

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue deal https://t.co/NxP3mKfgeE

[👁👁 @dave448]

@CarolynOgden @SpeechUnion really?... have you seen his expenses,..👀💨

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

https://t.co/NW9rwTQB1l

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

MPs have delivered a damning verdict on the Government’s jury trial reforms.

The Justice Committee has warned that magistrates’ courts will struggle to cope with the additional caseload created by restricting the right to trial by jury.

In its 109-page report, the committee said the Government should have published a formal response to Sir Brian Leveson’s criminal courts review before introducing draft legislation, allowing for proper parliamentary scrutiny.

The MPs criticised the Government for pushing ahead with reforms of major constitutional significance without seeking broader consensus. They noted that the measures will not be implemented until at least March 2028, making the rush to legislate difficult to justify.

The committee also said that the Government’s plan to double magistrates’ sentencing powers to 24 months is “diametrically opposed” to Leveson’s recommendations. Giving magistrates the power to impose two-year prison sentences, it said, represents a significant shift in criminal justice policy that has not been sufficiently justified.

The MPs further concluded that the Government’s claim that the reforms will save 20 per cent of Crown Court time “lacks a concrete evidential basis”.

They also raised concerns about the impact on black and minority ethnic defendants, noting that just 1 per cent of Crown Court judges are black — a figure unchanged since 2015.

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[Robert Clark @RobertClark87]

At a moment when Britain is searching down the back of the sofa for money to rebuild its defences, why is the ridiculous £9bn carbon capture and storage budget being protected…

This is a government *defined* by its unwillingness to defend the nation 👇

https://t.co/n2teSytU3K

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Many people owe the 12 year old (now 13) Scottish girl an apology.

You first @PoliceScotland

And you @freddiesayers - you posh twat

And you #narinder-heres-my-flange

God bless those girls. And well done mum

[Gordon Dimmack @GordonDimmack]

One of these people is an 83 year old Priest who held up a sign expressing her right to free speech. The other has decapitated his political enemies with a knife.

Guess which the UK government calls a terrorist, and which gets invited to number 10 for dinner.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Yesterday in the Lords I asked if every illegal migrant is asked who told them about their boat trip, who they paid and who drove the boat. The Minister’s refusal to answer implies government does not ask migrants to help them smash the gangs. Why?

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Did nobody assessing these men to see if they were the right material for adoption not have any concerns about their motives?
Or did they fear, if they raised them, might be accused of homophobia.
We should be told. This case is the worst I can remember.